Evaporating-pan.



WILSON G. OHAMBLEE, OF VAN ZANDT COUNTY, TEXAS.

EVAPORATlNG-PAN- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 14, 1907.

Application filed January 31, 1907. $erial No. 355,119.

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Be it known that I, VVILsoN G. CHAMBLEE, a citizen of the United States, residing in the county of Van Zandt and State of Texas, .have invented. a new and useful Evaporating-Pan, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to evaporating pans and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement of its parts as hereinafter shown and described.

The object of the invention is to' provide a pan of simple construction, the parts of which, however, are so arran ed that green juices may be easily and readily relieved of scum and incidental impurities by the exercise of a minimum amount of manual labor. The pan being also constructed as to convert such juices into syrups. The pan is substantially oblong in plan. and is adapted to rest upon a furnace of usual construction. That end of the pan which is located over the hottest part of the furnace is provided with compartments which are divided from each other by a partition extending along the longitudinal central axis of the pan. The green juices are introduced into the compartment located. at one side of said longitudinal partition and the juice is led from the first said compartment into the second said compartment through a gate located in the said partition near the end of the pan. The second said compartment is divided by a transverse partition into two chambers. The said chamhers communicate with one another by a gate located in the transverse partition in the vicinity of the longitudinally disposed partition. The chamber located at the intermediate portion of the pan communicates with a chamber at the end of the pan containing vertically disposed partitions arranged as baffle plates. The said chamber communicates with the baflie plate compartment by means of a gate located in the longitudinally disposed partition.

1n the accompanying drawing:F igure 1 is a top plan view of the pan, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same.

The pan 1 is oblong in shape and is adapted to rest u on the top of a furnace as is usually empl dyed for evaporating purposes. The said pan is provided at one end and along its central longitudinal axis with a partition 2 which forms at one side of the pan the compartment 3 and at the o posite side of the pan a compartment whic. is divided by the transverse partition 4 into the chambers 5 and 6. The said partition 4 extends from the side of the pan to the parti tion 2. The opposite end of the pan 1 is rovided with a compartment 7 in which is lbcated the zigzag arranged partitions 8- which form baflie plates. The bounding partitions and edges of the compartments and chambers 3, 5 and 6 are of greater vertical dimension than the said baffle lates 8. The inlet hose 9 is located in the si e of the compartment 3 at the end thereof adjacent the compartment 7. The gate 10- is located in the partition 2 at the end thereof adjacent the end of the pan 1. The gate 1 1 is located in the partition 4 at the end thereof adjacent the partition 2, the gate 12 is located in the partition 2 at the end thereof adjacent the compartment 7 and the gate 13 is located in the side of the pan 1 adjacent the end. thereof opposite to that end from which the parti tion 2 extends.

As the pan 1 is laced u on a furnace and the partition 2 is coated irectly above the fire that portion of the pan in the vicinity of the said partition 2 is subjected to heat of greatest intensity. When the green syrup is admitted through the hose 9 into the compartment 3 the said syrup or juice immediately begins to boil and boils with greatest vigor along the partition 2. Consequently, the scum of the juice and those impurities liberated by the boiling and taken up by the scum will be forced by the active boilin juice toward the lon er side of the pan 1 and as the said scum co llects it may be dipped from the juice at the long side of the pan 1.

At the same time the juice passes through the gate 10 into the chamber 5 in which chamber it continues boiling with the $011111 moving toward the sides of the pan 1 as above described. The juice more actively moving as a consequence of the boiling and consequently freed of impurities and scum passes through the gate 11 which is located at one. of the hottest points of the pan into the chamber 6. Any impurities that may have passed through the gate 11 will move to the side of the pan .1 forming one of the bounds of the said chamber 6. The purified juice passes from the chamber 6 through the ate 12- into the comartment 7 and passes %y a tortuous route a ong the baffle plates 8 durin which time it cools comparatively and ows through the gate 13 in the form of purified syrup.

Having described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is z- An evaporating pan comprising a body of "5 oblong oonfi oration, a partition extendin from one end of the pan and 'being locate along the central longitudinal axis thereof, a means for admitting juice to the pan, said partitionliaving at its opposite ends gates, 10 a partition extending transversely of the pan and joining With the edges of the pan and the first said partition at an intermediate point thereof and having a gate adjacent the lon- WILSON G. CHAMBLEE.

Witnesses:

E. T. GRAY, J. L. STANDLEY. 

